Fechas y lugar de las becas Erasmus en Letonia

Riga, Latvia

The TASTY project will happen from September 11 to 20, 2017. It will host 25 participants from youth workers, youth organisation members and leaders from Erasmus+ programme countries — Poland, Romania, Italy, Spain and Latvia.

There must be 4 people from each country.

Resumen proyecto de las becas Erasmus en Letonia

The project title is “TASTY — Telling Adventures and Stories for the Youth” — it’s about storytelling techniques and events. The TASTY project will happen from September 11 to 20, 2017. It will host 25 participants from youth workers, youth organisation members and leaders from Erasmus+ programme countries — Poland, Romania, Italy, Spain and Latvia. The course is based on informal learning methodology. The methodology is structured in such a way to maximize the learning ability, knowledge sharing and new skills gaining in an informal setting.

The participants will be engaged into the learning process through team work, practical work with body and voice with an expert actor, information and experience exchange sessions, various and diverse storytelling sessions, theoretical lessons, discussions, Q&A sessions and thematic workshops which will facilitate deeper understanding of the topic and knowledge gain. The end result of the course participants’ work will be a product — a storytelling night for the youth «TASTY Stories» which will let the participants stengthen their skills and see how they are applicable to working with youth.

The course participants will get knowledge and experience, as well as practical storytelling, organization and youth work skills.

Participation is free of charge (apart of Building Bridges fee). You will be provided catering (three meals, non-alcoholic drinks, snacks) and accomodation in a hotel. After providing all the necessary travel documents participants will be refunded their travel expenses.

Participants will be accommodated in a hotel near the main activity location, up to two or three persons of the same gender in a room.

Latvia is a safe and beautiful country, we think you will enjoy it very much.

To maximize the engagement of the local community in the final cultural event, the participants will create and send out press releases, announcements and other activities in social networks, visual invitations. The storytelling evening will provide the publicity for the concert itself and for the Erasmus+ program. The methodology of the learning course is composed in a way to facilitate learning, knowledge and competence sharing and acquiring in an informal setting. The participants will be engaged into the learning process through role-playing games, simulations, researching and group work. There will be theoretical lessons and discussions and thematic workshops which will help understand the topics. During the course the participants will be able to take different social and organizational roles. The course’s activities will let the participants gain new competences in the topic of youth cultural event organization, and experience for taking up the responsibility to create and implement new cultural event organizing initiatives on the local and international levels. Each day is structured into four blocks — morning, day I, day II and evening, each about 1.5 h, with coffee and lunch breaks between them. The generic timetable: ● 8:30–9:30 — breakfast; ● 10:00–11:30 — morning session; ● 11:30–12:00 — coffee break; ● 12:30–13:30 — day session I; ● 14:00–15:00 — lunch; ● 15:30–17:00 — day session II; ● 17:00—17:30 — coffee break; ● 17:30—19:00 — evening session; ● 19:30—20:30 — dinner and introspections.

During the preparation works the participants will meet members of the local community, inform them about the cultural event and invite them, strengthening the connections and providing a positive informational background.

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Reembolso becas Erasmus en Letonia

All your principal costs during the training are taken in charge by the Erasmus + program (food, accommodation, training, etc.). About the travel cost from your home to our place, Erasmus+ program is taking a part of the cost. You can do a simulation on this website: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/tools/distance_en.htm

You have to buy your tickets and the reimbursement will be done a month or two after the end of the activities. Taxis will not be reimbursed.

We need your travel documents (boarding pass, tickets, invoices) to be able to reimburse you, so MAKE SURE YOU KEEP ALL YOUR TICKET RECEIPTS!

The reimbursements will be proceeded by bank transfer after the exchange upon sending all travel documents and international bank details. Reimbursement of travel costs will only be done upon full attendance of the project and presentation of the original travel tickets with boarding passes, receipts, invoices.

Reimbursement will be done in EURO, regardless of the currency indicated on the ticket and receipt/invoice. Any tickets purchased in a local currency other than EUR0, will then be converted and calculated according to the exchange rate of the month when the ticket/s were purchased, as stated in the official European Commission web-site.

If you wish to travel on other dates than the dates of the exchange, please take contact with the organizers before purchasing your tickets! Please plan your trip carefully.

Early arrivals or late departures will be the own responsibility of the participants.

According to the NA the arrival and travel back must be realized by participants within maximum of 2 days. In case of longer stays or indirect travel (holiday travel, etc) there is no chance of reimbursement. Also, if you want to stay one or two days longer, before or after the training course, we will not be able to host you at the training course’s location and you will have to find a place to stay at your own. If you have difficulties with it, contact us. Please note that the organizers will not provide any additional accommodation outside the dates of the exchange!

Coordinator organization will transfer travel expenses to your sending organization and they are the ones who will give you your travel expenses back. Travel expenses will be reimbursed the latest one month after the submission of the final report and to get them you will have to do all participants tasks, including ones before and after mobility as stated under participants’ tasks .Every participant is obligated to actively participate in all activities. In a case of missing out more than 10% of activities participants travel expenses won’t be reimbursed and participant is risking getting expelled from the project and sent back home on their own expenses.

Perfil participantes de las becas Erasmus en Letonia

We are looking for responsible people interested in this course who will be able to organize their own subsequent events and activities in their countries. We invite young people from the age of 18, also outh organisation members and leaders.

Certificado becas Erasmus en Letonia

All participants will be able to get a Youthpass certificate after the project.

Youthpass is a part of the European Commission recognition of non-formal learning. It confirms the participation in the training course emphasizing the learning process and individual reflection about new competences that the participants gained during the project. The participants have the possibility to describe what they have done in the project and which skills and competences they have acquired.

Proceso selección para las becas Eramus en Letonia

Building Bridges members and/or long term unemployed (proved by scanned document) will have preference to this volunteer service.

You should complete registration in 2 steps:

1. Please send your application form, CV and motivation letter to asociacionbb@gmail.com. Remember to write in the motivation letter that your sending institution is “Asociación Building Bridges”.All documents written in english you can send to: asociacionbb@gmail.com with subject “YE Latvia Tasty Lampa.YOUR NAME.YOUR SURNAME“. We give you creative ideas about how to create a good CV in English.

2. Pay the registration fee (40€) by Paypal or bank transfer to :Asociación Building Bridges, CIF G85466886. This registration fee includes one year membership to our National and International activities.

* It is compulsory to send application form, CV and motivation letter and pay the registration fee at the same time in order to be within the pre-selection process.